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Alice Shaver Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
109
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$953kArts & Culture$918kHuman Services$813kEducation$648kEnvironment$405kHousing & Shelter$362kHealth$257kAnimals$222kOther$0
02FY2025 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $920k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS-NO CA COASTAL$25,000
IONA SENIOR SERVICES$20,000
COOL THE EARTH$20,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUN$20,000
FEEDING AMERICA$20,000
NY CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$20,000
VIVALON$20,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF TAKOMA PARK$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
CASA$20,000
FRESH FARM$15,000
ART ENABLES$15,000
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL$15,000
MANNA FOOD CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%CARING MATTERS INC: $10k → 8%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%CARING MATTERS INC: $10k → 8%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $10k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $25k → 19%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $10k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $20k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $15k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $10k → 19%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 14%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $10k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $10k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNT: $10k → 8%VIVALON: $25k → 8%VIVALON: $25k → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%VIVALON: $20k → 8%VIVALON: $20k → 8%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $25k → 14%VIVALON: $20k → 8%RITTER HOUSE: $20k → 8%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $10k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $10k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $10k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 101 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
37

Total granted

$6.5M
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+38%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +26%
  • CT
    COOL THE EARTH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +664% · 51% of their budget
  • BF
    BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • Civic Nationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +241%
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +219%
  • HI
    HIAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +180%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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5
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
6
Moveable Feast Inc

Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…

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7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
9
Usaging

Usaging represents & supports the national network of area agencies on aging & advocates for the title vi native american aging programs that help older adults & people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence &…

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10
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
11
Miriam's Kitchen

To end chronic homelessness in washington, dc. the organization advocates for permanent supportive housing as a long-term solution, while meeting short-term needs by providing healthy meals and high-quality social services to the…

Human Services
12
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Provincetown Jazz Festival Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…United Way AffiliatesLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/104
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,461

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 177 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
71/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWE ARE SR — $180,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $175,000 · OtherPROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC — $165,000 · OtherHEADS UP FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · OtherWILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL — $145,000 · OtherSOME INC — $140,000 · OtherStepping Stones Shelter Inc — $165,000 · OtherCANAL ALLIANCE — $165,000 · Other+111 more — $2,582,000 · Other+111 moreTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $220,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $120,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…Vivalon — $110,000 · Human ServicesVivalonWEDNESDAYS GIFT — $95,000 · Human ServicesWEDNESDAYS GIFTRITTER CENTER — $90,000 · Human ServicesRITTER CENTERGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR TH…HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH…Center for Domestic Peace — $70,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Domest…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $45,000 · Human Services+10 more — $163,000 · Human Services+10 moreBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC — $190,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE…MANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $185,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOO…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $115,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL A…FRESHFARM MARKETS — $66,000 · Food & NutritionFRESHFARM…Feeding America — $50,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding A…+4 more — $32,000 · Food & NutritionA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $170,000 · EducationFIRST BOOK — $85,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $80,000 · EducationPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $64,000 · EducationCHILDRENS COTTAGE — $40,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $25,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationCOOL THE EARTH INC — $220,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentWILLIAMSTOWN GARDEN CLUB — $45,000 · EnvironmentSLIDE RANCH — $30,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureRachel Carson Place of Wonder Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYouth in Arts — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTAKOMA RADIO INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $90,000 · Crime & LegalSECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC — $60,000 · Crime & LegalPrisoners Literature Project — $55,000 · Crime & LegalART ENABLES — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,092,000Human Services$1,133,000Food & Nutrition$638,000Education$499,000Environment$405,000Arts & Culture$260,000Crime & Legal$255,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $220,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOOL THE EARTH INC — $220,000 over 9y, 51% of budgetBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC — $190,000 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $185,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $175,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $170,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetStepping Stones Shelter Inc — $165,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $165,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC — $165,000 over 9y, 48% of budgetSOME INC — $140,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVivalon — $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $110,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $100,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWEDNESDAYS GIFT — $95,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $90,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetRITTER CENTER — $90,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $80,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetWILDCARE — $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $80,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHancock Shaker Village Inc — $72,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace — $70,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS — $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $64,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC — $60,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPrisoners Literature Project — $55,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetFeeding America — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $45,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetARTPRENEURS INC — $45,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN GARDEN CLUB — $45,000 over 9y, 55% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDRENS COTTAGE — $40,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL THINGS MATTER INC — $35,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetART ENABLES — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTAILS OF JOY — $30,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds COOL THE EARTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Vivalon ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDNESDAYS GIFT ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDCARE ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
  • Who funds FRESHFARM MARKETS ↗
  • Who funds PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…McNabb FoundationMilton & Dorothy Sarn…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…United Way of the Nat…Marin Community Found…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC35.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Milton & Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Marin Community Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alice Shaver Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Artpreneurs Inc — 18% of income from government
  • North Adams Ambulance Service Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pine Cobble School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alice Shaver Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alice Shaver Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 177 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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